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Onshape vs fusion 36011/26/2023 ![]() Fusion 360 for p ersonal u se remains free Y ou’ve shown us how much it has become a part of your lives, and for that, we are eternally grateful. Fast forward to now, and there are 645,000 of you actively using Fusion 360 every month. In the beginning, like many startups, we only had a handful of users. Today, Fusion 360 encompasses all aspects of this philosophy, and one of the best things about building a product from scratch is seeing the incredible growth of our community over the past 7 years. We’re living in the future, and we want Fusion 360 to take you even further. You and your teams should not be limited by where you’re located, nor by the OS platform you run on. Since the day Fusion 360 entered the market, we set out to build a product firmly based on the philosophy that design tools should be available to everyone, always up-to-date, and easy to use. If you’re not sure whether you should get the paid subscription, stick with the Personal Use offering, or if you’re confused about any of the changes mentioned in this blog post, talk directly with one of our experts and we’ll gladly to help you make the right decision specific to your needs. We understand that change can be hard, and that’s why we’re here to help. If this is your first time seeing this announcement, we encourage you to watch the video and read the blog post below for the full context. Here are 8 quick answers to the most common questions we’ve seen in the community. We understand the emotions you’re all going through, so in the spirit of clarity, I want to break it down for you with the most accurate information about what is changing, directly from our team. There have been lots of discussions on social media and on our forums. ![]() 17, 2020: Answers to the top 8 FAQs from you You will continue to see development and investment in Fusion 360 for personal use. We want you to know, while the changes to the personal use entitlement were necessary, we remain committed to our community. It remains in product unchanged and will not be removed as other announced changes roll out this October and January. For this reason, we have made the decision to continue to allow STEP export for personal, non-commercial users. This change had unintended consequences for the hobbyist community. This removal of STEP export was previously announced as part of the changes to curb misuse of Fusion 360 for personal use by commercial users. STEP export will remain available for Fusion 360 for personal use. ![]() 25, 2020: STEP Export stays in Fusion 360 for personal use I can work on my OnShape designs on just about any computer with a browser and an Internet connection, but I keep a copy of FreeCAD on my computer just in case.UPDATE Sept. It is a reminder that when you depend on someone else’s service, you can lose functionality up to and including losing everything on that service. They just stopped giving something away for free which is within their rights, and I’m sure AutoDesk is capable of the same type of behavior. I don’t want to paint the OnShape folks as bad guys here. OnShape ignored the community’s call for a cheaper hobbyist price tier. They suddenly faced a choice of $125 per month to keep developing or abandoning their designs on OnShape and starting over on another platform. This was a bummer for hobbyists, but killer for users with small for-profit projects. OnShape kinda turned their back on the hobbyist/start-up community they used to offer up to 10 private files per user for free accounts, but took those away, making existing user’s private files read-only.I haven’t been following closely, but I get the impression that they are developing a lot faster than Fusion. OnShape has come a long distance in a very short time.Autodesk is a big company, more likely to survive an economic hit OnShape is smaller.I use OnShape mostly because I discovered and started learning it before I discovered Fusion.
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